Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Bucerotiformes > Bucerotidae > Lophoceros > Lophoceros hemprichiiLophoceros hemprichii (Hemprich's Hornbill)Synonyms: Buceros hemprichii; Tockus hemprichii The Hemprich's hornbill (Tockus hemprichii) is a species of hornbill in the Bucerotidae family. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Uganda. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 9.93215 EDGE Score: 2.39171 |
Adult Weight [1] | 297 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore | Diet - Ectothermic [2] | 20 % | Diet - Fruit [2] | 10 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 70 % | Forages - Canopy [2] | 20 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 40 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 10 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 30 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [3] | 3 |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Ethiopian montane forests |
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands |
Ethiopia, Eritrea |
Afrotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Ethiopian montane moorlands |
Ethiopia |
Afrotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands |
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Name |
Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Abijatta: Shalla Lakes National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Arboroba escarpment |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Arero forest |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Asmara escarpment |
Eritrea |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Awash National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Bandingilo |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Boma |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Boorama plains |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Central Plateau: Keren |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Daalo |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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ForĂȘt de Day |
Djibouti |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gacan Libaax |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kidepo |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Lake Baringo |
Kenya |
A3 |
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Lake Bogoria National Reserve |
Kenya |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Nakuru National Park |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A4i, A4iii |
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Mabla |
Djibouti |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mareb escarpment |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Mount Moroto Forest Reserve |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nechisar National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Omo National Park |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Saylac |
Somalia |
A3 |
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Semenawi Bahri |
Eritrea |
A1, A3 |
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Southern Plateau: Furrus |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Yabello Sanctuary |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
No |
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Horn of Africa |
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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